“Fireworks” means any article, device or substance prepared for the primary purpose of producing a visual or auditory sensation by combustion, explosion, deflagration or detonation which meets the description of fireworks as set forth in the United States Department of Transportation Hazardous Materials Regulations, Title 49 C.F.R., Parts 173.88 and 173.100, and including, but not limited to, the following articles and devices commonly known and used as fireworks: toy cannons or toy canes in which explosives are used; blank cartridges; firecrackers; torpedoes; skyrockets; rockets; Roman candles; cylindrical fountains; cone fountains; wheels; ground spinners; illuminating torches and colored fire in any form; Day-Glo bombs and torches; sparklers; snakes; and any other fireworks of like construction and any fireworks containing any explosive or flammable compound, or any tablets or devices containing any explosive substance. Fireworks does not include: toy caps which contain less than twenty-six hundredths (0.26) of a grain of explosive compound per cap, highway flares, railroad fuses, ship distress signals, smoke candles and other emergency signal devices.

“Open-burning fires” means the burning of materials wherein products of combustion are emitted directly into the ambient air without passing through a stack or chimney from an enclosed chamber. Open burning does not include road flares, smudge pots and similar devices associated with the safety or occupational uses typically considered open flames or recreational fires. For the purposes of this definition, a chamber shall be regarded as enclosed when, during the time combustion occurs, only apertures, ducts, stacks, flues or chimneys necessary to provide combustion air and permit the escape of exhaust gas are open.

“Recreational burning” means an outdoor fire burning materials other than rubbish where the fuel being burned is not contained in an incinerator, outdoor fireplace, barbeque grill or barbeque pit and has a total fuel area of three (3) feet or less in diameter and two (2) feet or less in height for pleasure, religious, ceremonial, cooking, warmth or similar purposes. (Ord. 748 §2, 2018)